Author Archives: emersonp

Most discussion of policy analysis and economics centers around two things: inequality and the distribution of efficient market outcomes, and market failures or instances where markets fail to operate efficiently.  In all of this, however, we assume that one economic … Continue reading →

I will post on Game Theory and Policy here Monday or Tuesday.

Here is a link to a very nice paper that discusses the challenge of isolating causation in social data.

Hello everyone, this is the place you will be doing a lot of your writing for the class both in the main post section and in the comments to posts.  I like the blog format as it feels less formal … Continue reading →